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The great hall in which the banquet was spread , a noble apartment , was quite full , with the exception , perhaps , of the side galleries , in which there appeared to be some spare room . The entertainment was given , not by the corporation , but by inhabitants of the town associated for the occasion . The hall was appropriately decorated . On the panels of the galleries were emblazoned the names of Count Batthyany , Count Louis Batthyani , Bern , Dembinski , and various eminent Hungarians . Along the front of the principal gallery was inscribed , in larger letters , " Welcome Ivossuth ! " Mr . Scholefield , M . P ., presided . Kossuth was conducted to the table by Mr . Gaach , M . P ., and sat doAvnwith Mr . Muntz , M . P ., Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., Mr . George Dawson , M . Fulzsky , General Vetter , Mr . Massingberd , and other gentlemen . the Chairman read
When the cloth was removed , letters of apology from the Mayor of Birmingham , Mr . W . S . Landor , the Recorder of Birmingham , Lord Hatherton , Lord Leigh , Mr . 'Newdegate , M . P ., Mr . Sidney , M . P ., Mr . Collins , M . P ., Mr . Benbow , M . P ., and Mr . Foley , M . P . Mr . W . S . Landor had sent the following lines , " On Kossuth ' s Voyage to America " : — '' Rave over other lands and other seas , Ill-omened blackwinged Breeze ! But spare the friendly sails that waft away Him , who was deemed the prey Of despot dark as thou , one sending forth The torturers of the North , To fix upon his Caucasus once more The demigod who bore To sad humanity Heaven ' s fire and light , Whereby should reunite In happier bonds , the nations of the earth ; Whose Jovelike brow gave birth To that high wisdom , whence all blessings flow On mortals here below . " Eack not , O Boreal Breeze , that labouring breast On which , half dead , yet rest The hopes of millions , and rest there alone . Impiously every throne Crushes the credulous ; none else than he Can raise and set them free . Oh bear him on in safety and in health ! Bear on a freight of wealth Such as no vessel yet hath ever borne ; Although with banner torn He urges through tempestuous waves his way ; Yet shall a brighter day Shine on him in his own reconquered field ; Itelenting Fate shall yield To constant Virtue . Hungary ! no more Thy saddest loss deplore ; Look to the star-crowned Genius of the West , Sole guardian of the opprost . Oli ! that one only nation dared to save Kossuth , the true and brave ! " The loyal toasts being disposed of with great applause , ( jeneral Wallbridge , United States , responded to the toast " The Sultan of Turkey and the President of the United States . He was sure that in the next groat war England and America would fight shoulder to shoulder under the joint banners of the two peoples . Mr . ? Scholefield , in proposing " Our illustrious guest , Louis Kossuth , " used some remarkable "words .
" There was yet a future for Hungary , in which lingland must take part for good or evil . He hated and dctisted war ; but lie would not bo a party to a policy which arrcsied war to-day only for the purpose of insuring it more certainly for to-morrow . He bought a clear statue and no favour for all nations . They would not interfere themselves , but they should not allow the intervention of others . Had they acted up to thi . s policy , who would have been King of Hungary now ? (( heers . ) Where would have been the Pope of Itome ? ( Cheers . ) Had they arrested war by their timorous policy ? lie believed there never was a time when it wotdd be more difficult to avert war than now . Give the ahtiolutc
monarcliH of Kurope a few months' more swing , and anarchy , the result , of tyranny , must burst loose ; and who could say it would not reach our shores ? ( Cheers . )" Kostuilh on rising to reply was received an usual by the most tremendous cheering . Jlis oration was perhaps the best he has yet delivered in England . The topics were not different from the others ; thoro was the same warm gush of thankful eloquence at the opening , the bame recurrence to the incidents of the llungariun struggle ., the name happy and hearty descriptions of tin ; impression he had of England ; the Humu illustration of the advantages of hee trade and the necessity-for free trade ; , and the same , kind of peroration , only it rose to prophetic force and solemn
warning- Vet was tins not identical with any other speech delivered by Louis Kossuth . Then ; was a nameless spirit in it —more grace , richer forms of expression — grander ami more poetical thoughtsit was more fused with the great overcoming npirit of the hour—it was warmer and more affectionate- it was quite as profound an his other speeches , and more enchanting to the ear than any . He seemed to have caught tin ; feedings of the hearty , genial , but resolute English millions who had greeted him , and to have fused those ; feelings with Oriental lire . lit ; . spoke prose poetry of the psalmist order ; he uttered profound political truths . He uwoke iu the breast of his heurortj the yearning to help , with anna or voice , with life or death , the cause of his native laud . Ho
touched the fountains of tears by deep pathos of expression ; and beneath the fierce glowing hatred of his powerful antagonists , and below his own glorious aspirations , there ran that profound sentiment of the nothingness of the transitory which characterises all the orations of Kossuth . His opening sentences rose to the highest sublimity , as when he spoke of the relation of the history of England to his life . " I found England not free because mighty , glorious , and great ; but I found her mighty , glorious , and great , because free . ( Cheers . ) So was England to me the book of life , which led me out of the fluctuation of wavering thoughts to unshakeable principles . It was
to me the fire which steeled my feeble strength with that iron perseverance which the adversities of fate can break , but never bend . ( Hear , hear . ) My heart and my soul will , as long as I live , bear on itself the seal of this book of life . ( Hear , hear . ) And so has England , long ago , become the honoured object of my admiration and respect ; and so great was the image of Britannia , which I cherished in my bosom , that laslly , when the strange play of fate led me to your shores , I could scarcely overcome some awe in approaching them , because I remembered that the harmony of great objects wants the perspective of distance , and my breast panted at the idea that the halo of glory with which England was surrounded in my thoughts would perhaps not stand
the touch of reality , the more because I am well aware all that is human in every age will have its own fragilities . I know that every society which is not a new one has , besides its own fragilities , to bear the burden of the sins of the past , and I know that the past throws such a large shadow into the present and upon the future that to dispel it entirely the sun must be mounted very high . But so much I must state with fervent joy , that upon the whole the image which the reality in England present bears upon it at every step such a seal of greatness , teeming with rich life , and so solid in foundation , that it far exceeds even such expectations as were mine ; and the thing which most strikes the observer
in the midst of your glorious country is that he meets in moral , material , and political respects , such elements of a continual progress towards perfection ; and these elements display such a mighty , free , and cheerful activity , and these activities so lively , pervaded by the public spirit of the people , that however great the triumphs may be which England already has to show to the astonished world ( and great they are to be sure , gigantic they arethings called wonders in past histories shrink to pigmies in comparison with them ) , every man instinctively feels that all these triumphs of progress are but a degreegreat to be sure , but still only a degree—to what it will be the happy and glorious lot of posterity to see in this country . ( Hear , hear . )"
And when he looked round and saw the names on the walls , names which recalled the memory of his down trodden native land , he uttered one of the finest bursts of eloquence , rounded off with as grand a climax as we remember .
" The root of his life was not in himself ; his individuality was absorbed in the thought , —freedom , people , fatherland ! What was the key of the boundless confidence which his people bore to him ? They took him for the incarnation of their sentiments , wishes , affections , hopes . ( Hear , hear . ) Was it not , then , natural that the sufferings of his nation should lie embodied in him ? Yes , he bore the woe of millions of Magyars in his breast . ( Hear , hear . ) The people—that mighty pyramid of mankind—the people was everywhere honourable , noble , and good . ( Hear , hear . ) Even in view of the greatness of the English nation , he must be allowed to proclaim that he felt proud to be a Magyar . ( Hear , hear . ) Their enemies said they were but an insignificant party ,
fanaticised by himself . They stirred up to the fury of civil war the Croat , Serb , Slovack , Wallach ; the house of Hapsburg brought its power to bear , but still it would not do ; the proud dynasty had to stoop at the feet of the Czar fe > r hia legions , and still Hungary would have boen a match for him , but for the diplomacy which contrived to introduce treason . ( Hear , hear . ) Still , it was not a mere party , and it might be judged then how it would be when all these Croats , Wullachians , Serbs , Slovacks , should range under one banner of freedom ami right . ( Hear , hear . ) And assuredly they would . ( Hear . ) Humanity with its child ' s faith might be deluded for a while , but the blindfold soon fell from the eyes . ( Hear , hear . ) So then the scorned ' party' turned out to be a nation . ( Hear . ) But it was said it was he ( M . Kossuth ) who inspired it . No , it was not he who inspired the
Hungarian people ; it was the Hungarian people who inspired him . ( Hear , hear . ) Whatever he thought and felt was but a feeble pulsation which in the bream of his people beat . ( Hear , hear . ) The glory of battles was ascribed to the Jeadein in history , and theirs were the luurel . H of immortality ; they knew they would forever live on the lips of their people . Very different the light tspread on the image e > f those thousands of the people ' s koiih who knew that where the > y fell they would lie , their names unhouourcd and unsung , and who still , animated by the love : e > f freedom and fatherland , went em culndy against the batteries whose orosH-nre vomited eleuth and elewtruction em them , they whe > fell falling with the shout , ' Hurrah for Hungary ! ' ( Hear , hear . ) And so they died In / thousands , the 'unnamed demu / ods . ( A hurst of checriny . ) Sue ; h waa the people of Hungary . ( Itenetocd cheers S "
Among many Hue things lio saiel wo quote these lew : " The- tongue ; e > f ituiu is powerful enough to rcnelor the idcuH which the human intellect conccivcH , hut in the realm of true : and deep Hentiiuents it ih but a weak interpreter . " " Humanity has a nobler dentiny than to bo the iootatool of Homo fumiliuB . "
" What could be the meaning of this sv ^ r ^ iTT ^ it only a funeral feast offered to the metX } 7 ? Was dead ? God forbid ; the peopfe of eSuSi * noble people of life-its sympathy beWed tf thi r ^ the to tne dead . The hurrah which greeted hSi ^ " ' shores , the warm cheering of hundreds nf tvT ° the 8 e the streets , he took for the trumpet sound of the ' t ^ * l ing triumph of freedom , justice , and popX ri fS ^ ^ u He had the firm conviction that everv at . * , organization was perverted , perverse , and doomed £ !" turned up , where single individuals or single cWPR v , . ftssras tsrss < is 5 £ k 3 s . ^ *^ * 5 "kfniVun . " '"» »»?• - ^ i « ££ * 2 " In the words of one of the Viennese politicians * i , were told that Austria < did not expect the MasvarS ' t . I contented-all they wanted was that they 8 fc £ 8 dU > Yes The House of Austria would not be loved R owed " ^^^ > Hun S r would Pay them an J that t *\ V » AUStlia ? ThG 1 OanS ' bayonets ' Czar ,-
< I confidently affirm that there is not a single question in your internal relations which outweighs in important your external relations ; nay , more , I am persuaded that all your great internal questions are dependent unr jour Foreign-office . Danger can only gather over Enland from abroad . " ° His last words were these : — " To be sure , I have not the pretension to play themrt of Anacharsis Kloots , before the Convention of Franc-Humble as I am , still I am no Anacharsis Kloots-but my sufferings and the nameless woes of my native / and as well as the generous reception I enjoy , may perhaps ' entitle me to intreat you , gentlemen , to take the feeble words I raise to you out of the bottom of my own
desolation for the cry of oppressed humanity , crying out to yo-i by every stammering tongue , ' People of England , \ h not forget in thy happiness our sufferings . Mind , in thy freedom , those who are oppressed ; mind , in thy proud security , the indignities we endure . Remember that with every down-beaten nation one rampart of liberty fall .-Remember the fickleness of human fate . Remember that those wounds out of which one nation bleeds , are so mmy wounds inflicted on that principle of liberty which makes thy glory and thy happiness , llemember , there is a common tie which binds the destiny of humanity . ] 5 e thanked for the tear of cjmpassion thou givest to our mournful past ; but have something more than a tear , have in our future a brother ' s hand to give us . ' "
All the company stood up and cheered for many minutes as Kossuth sat down . M . Kossuth ' s speech was succeeded by one from Mr . Toulmin Smith , the barrister , upon the Hungarian wrongs . lie said , ho hoped that all parents present that night would teach their children next morning that Kossuth was the Alfred of Hungary . He concluded by proposing " The Future of Hungary . " The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm . M . Pulzsky acknowledged the toast , and , in so doing , inveighed against the Times . Mr . Scholefield , M . P ., proposed " the health of Mr . George Dawson . " ( The jirofiosition was received with loud cheers . )
Mr . Dawson , in returning thanks , said , that whatever any person might say to the contrary , Uirmingham was the most democratic town in -Kngland . { Loudcheers . ) That would ever be the case to the end of the chapter . { Cheers . ) They mig ht rely upon it that the proceedings of that clay would teach the people to look in the first place to themselves . The proceedings did not terminate until past twelve o'clock . Altogether a very striking exhibition of the English people . Perhaps , as the old banner of the 44 Political Union " formed part of the procession on Monday , the old spirit of the political union will arise among the people .
ADDHHS 3 FKOM IJIliailTON . The high constable of Brighton , Mr . Montagu Scott , convened u meeting pursuant to a requisition signed by 12 f > inhabitants , on Tuesday evening . » the platform were Mr . William Coninghuui , Arnoi j Huge , and other gentlemen . Mr . Coningham inovu the adoption of the address . He denounced the \ V n f , method of practising nonintervention , and liepoui--out the fact that America and England were reft y #£ i
UUl IHU 4 « Ul UUl | . XJLlllUHl . a MH" _» - ¦» ,- » to combine in defence of violated liberty . 1 < rom c own personal experience he testified to ^ the ' ^ popularity of KosButh in Hungary . The II 1 (! . b wuh Huhsciiuimtly addressed by Dr . Hugo , Mr . "V / Mr . Cox , Air . Allen , and Mr . Good . ' ! " « ™™^_ which passed unanimously , and winch the h'g ^ stable ami Mr . Coningham were appointed to !>»* - » >
wan worded an follows : — "To Louih KossuTii , GJovkknou oi- 1 IuNUAUY ' tli ( . <« To you , Sir , as the national representative e > ^^ j ancient constitutional kingdom of Hungry , a Kovtrnor by the sufiru < 'B of its freo and onliHj j tt . m ^ pie ; as th « man who could proudly assert a . •«<¦ » - semlded < lele K ateH of the working olasHea of the K ^ motronouH , that < he hud lived Ins whole I f ^ X () f honest and imlimtnoui . labour ' wo , the n »''» " , , „„„ ., the Jioroiiflh of Hri K hton , and Hundred "f VV ' |( , UKHfiinblt'd in public mooting »» «» f Vn r < l < ' « ir ° the ; ineaiele-nce of our chief Municipal O ^ ' ur rcpeclfully to ofle . r our . incor . ^ B" 1 ^ " 0 " ^ . ^ « afo arrival in Urituin , and to aa-uro you of our w sympathy in the cause , not merely of Hui' « ^ lctl of pendenco , but ah « o of Jt » Uu » , Goimaii ,. and i **»
1080 A&E &Ta**R« [Satu*,Uy >
1080 a & e & ta ** r « [ Satu * , uy
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111851/page/4/
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